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Conditional surrender?
“Turning our life over is not a sneaky way to force God to give us the outcome we want. . . . When it comes to the spiritual life, ‘conditional surrender’ is a contradiction in terms. Surrender that demands God grant us some outcome we want is negotiation. Genuinely turning our life and will over
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“Willingness implies a surrendering of one’s self-separateness, an entering into, an immersion in the deepest processes of life itself. . . . In contrast, willfulness is the setting of oneself ....
“Surrender is death to the self, but it is not the death of the self. God loves our selves more than we do! The surrender of the self brings new ....
“The only hope we have is to accept the fact that we’re already dead. We naturally resist this. We would prefer to navigate between what our desires crave, while remaining ....
“Sometimes people mistake ‘knowing God’ for affirming correct information about God. The demons know about God, but they don’t know him. . . . To know God is to live ....
“The longest journey in the world is the twelve inches from your head to hour heart. . . . The belief that is often hard for us is that God ....
“Just as people have core beliefs, we also have core doubts — the ones that interfere most deeply with our growth. The doubts that matter may not be ones we ....